wow, you guys didn't make out too bad, sucks we weren't on the fish. never got to meetup with the crew, i had to rush friday night to get my dads boat in the water for the shakedown cruise, launched at about midnight, didnt sleep till after 2, got up at 6:30 and called walleyeman, i thought everyone was meeting at the pavillian, but he said he was at his campsite and would send his kids over to help crew the boat. so it was, warmed the motor up everything seemed great, ran out watching the temp and playing with the trimtabs, was suprised they actuallly worked lol.
setup out in 20 fow and trolled north, took a shaker release i had no ruler so back it went, trolled all the way up to pinconning before we landed the next one, this time i took a 12" ruler on my shimano box and made a 15" measure on the rod holder boat, measured the fish and it was good by about an inch, so in the cooler. we manged to loose the next 4 fish and that was it. about 2 oclock we made the 9 mile run back to hoyles and it was time to find some A/C, man it was hot out....
anyway, boat was making some noise after we tried to get up on plane the first time. after consulting a few people we determined its on the output shaft, maybe the ujoints, hopefully not from coupler, anyway, gotta pull the lower and check it all out, was gonna fish sunday evening but the winds picked up so i headed back to sebewaing.
glad walleyeman and the crew made it off the lake rather safely saturday night, i guess finding port in the dark can be confusing sometimes can't it... lol
so sparty what depth of water were you working out there?